Single-orientation Crystalline Domains of Active Brownian Particles Lead to Collective Motions

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Main Authors: Yang, Cheng, Dai, Qiandong, Xu, Shun, Zhou, Xin
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Published: 2025
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author Yang, Cheng
Dai, Qiandong
Xu, Shun
Zhou, Xin
author_facet Yang, Cheng
Dai, Qiandong
Xu, Shun
Zhou, Xin
contents Active Brownian particles, even without attractive and anisotropic inter-particle interactions, can form a high-density phase featuring structure-ordered domains as well as collective motion regions under thermal noise. However, the mechanism, particularly the relationship between the motion and structure, remains unclear. In this study, we show that the motion-correlation regions are spatially coincident with the single-orientation crystalline domains. Each domain translates or rotates as a whole due to the net active force or torque acting upon it, allowing relative motions between these crystalline domains. The particles at domain boundaries usually have the active forces pointing inward, which helps to stabilize these structure-ordered domains and their corresponding collective motion regions.
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spellingShingle Single-orientation Crystalline Domains of Active Brownian Particles Lead to Collective Motions
Yang, Cheng
Dai, Qiandong
Xu, Shun
Zhou, Xin
Soft Condensed Matter
Active Brownian particles, even without attractive and anisotropic inter-particle interactions, can form a high-density phase featuring structure-ordered domains as well as collective motion regions under thermal noise. However, the mechanism, particularly the relationship between the motion and structure, remains unclear. In this study, we show that the motion-correlation regions are spatially coincident with the single-orientation crystalline domains. Each domain translates or rotates as a whole due to the net active force or torque acting upon it, allowing relative motions between these crystalline domains. The particles at domain boundaries usually have the active forces pointing inward, which helps to stabilize these structure-ordered domains and their corresponding collective motion regions.
title Single-orientation Crystalline Domains of Active Brownian Particles Lead to Collective Motions
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15211